LMG augments its asset finance sales team 

Matthew Thompson, Clint Hawthorne, and Daniel Scollo have been appointed as the growth managers.

Mr Thompson joins LMG from Connective Asset Finance, where he spent almost five years as a BDM. He has now taken on the role of LMG Asset Finance growth manager for Queensland.

He said: “I couldn’t be happier joining LMG, there’s nothing like their integrated technology and full service marketing solutions in the market – there’s a huge opportunity for brokers to scale their asset finance businesses and I’m looking forward to helping brokers find the right service plan to suit their needs.”

Mr Hawthorne joins LMG Asset Finance as growth manager in NSW after most recently being a relationship manager at COG Aggregation.

He commented: “There’s genuine excitement from asset brokers on the LMG offering and most of it revolves around the technology, there’s nothing quite like it.

“It’s exciting to have joined Australia’s largest aggregator, and even more excited to see the developments it’s making in the asset finance space.”

Already working at the aggregator as state manager of Victoria, LMG confirmed Mr Scollo had been promoted to growth manager in Victoria.

LMG said the new growth managers, covering NSW, Queensland, and Victoria, respectively, would lead LMG Asset Finance’s aggregation recruitment strategy along the east coast.

New BDMs

Meanwhile, Abigael Shepherd, Michael Marafiote, and Zoe Calderbank have been appointed as BDMs to provide greater broker support to asset finance referrers.

Ms Shepherd and Mr Marafiote were promoted from their roles as consumer and commercial strategist, respectively, while Ms Calderbank joined from Nodifi.

Speaking of the new appointments, LMG group executive, asset finance, Tom Caesar, said the new team members would strengthen the asset finance aggregation footprint as it marked its first anniversary since integrating myCRM and the cloud-based asset finance platform Nodifi.

Mr Caesar stated: “Twelve months ago we embarked on a journey to provide brokers with a 360-degree view of the customer, an objective that would facilitate more efficient operations, better reporting, expand a customer’s lifetime value and ultimately, enable brokers to easily provide a more diverse range of products.

“The group has the industry’s leading CRM and asset finance platform, when those two come together it creates an incredibly powerful solution for brokers, one that enables them to view all customer deals irrespective of loan type – residential, commercial or asset finance.

“Now it’s about showcasing the omnichannel solution to the broking industry, and the new sales team are best equipped to do so.

“Matt and Clint bring immense value to the team and their sound understanding of the asset finance aggregation space will equip them to hit the ground running.”

The latest expansion came after the aggregator appointed Rob Thomas as its new national director for member service offerings last week.

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